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Carborundum  n.  A beautiful crystalline compound, silicon carbide (SiC), consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; also called carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.






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"Carborundum" Quotes from Famous Books



... have come to light since 1874, as further evidence of the Lord's presence since that date, as follows: Adding machines, aeroplanes, aluminum, antiseptic surgery, artificial dyes, automatic couplers, automobiles, barbed wire, bicycles, carborundum, cash registers, celluloid, correspondence schools, cream separators, Darkest Africa, disk ploughs, Divine Plan of the Ages, dynamite, electric railways, electric welding, escalators, fireless cookers, gas engines, ...
— The Harp of God • J. F. Rutherford



Words linked to "Carborundum" :   abrasive material, trademark, abrasive, abradant



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